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Why 5th Grade Math is Important For Fat Loss

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:34:36 +0000

I would have never known what really counts for weight loss if I hadn’t paid so much attention to my fifth grade math teacher. While most people apply the math they learned in second grade to fat loss, they’re about 3 grades behind in understanding what fat loss is really all about.

The General Practices

Most people look at their weight alone. If you weigh 150 pounds and you go down to 135, then you’ve lost 15 pounds of your weight and you’re doing awesome.

This is a good rule of thumb and weighing yourself is important. However, this is second grade math while you need to apply fifth grade to really determine how well your fat loss process is going.

Fifth Grade Math

The real way to determine how well you’re doing is to calculate percentages, not pounds. I’m talking about your body’s fat loss percentage, the real way to see how lean you are.

When you lose weight you want to make sure you’re losing the right kind of weight: you need to make sure you’re shedding fat, first and foremost, and not too much muscle tissue as well.

After all, you can have very little fat on your but if you’re also short on muscle you will still look weak and flabby.

The key is to lower body fat percentage, not just worry about weight. You need to make sure you lose the weight where it counts, in your fat stores.

For example: say you weigh 200 pounds and 60 pounds of those are made of fat. You have a 30% body fat. Now, you lose 50 pounds which is a quarter of your weight and quite an achievement.

However, you now have 45 pounds of fat on you which is still 25% of your entire body weight. What happened here is that you did lose fat, but you also lost a lot of muscle tissue as well.

All in all, you may be lighter but you still have too much fat in your body. This is because you emplouyed second grade math tools to what is a fifth grade math problem.

The next time you try to lose fat set your goal in terms of body fat percentage, not in your total pounds.

Cheat Your Way Thin This Holiday Season

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:00:04 +0000

Over the past 2 weeks, the Internet has been buzzing with word of diet expert Joel Marion’s re-release of his popular Cheat Your Way Thin program for the holiday season. The program shows how you can lose weight during the holidays (while most people gain pounds) while “strategically” enjoying your favorite food.

I just got an email from Joel informing me that the time has come to share his method with the rest of the world (a good thing too as Thanksgiving is just around the corner).

The CheatYourWayThin Holiday edition is now available and today it’s at 50% off the regular price.

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The 50% off sale will be on until Thursday, November 26th, but you may want to grab a copy today because Joel Marion is offering a very nice bonus package for people who order today and today only:

1. Bonus #1: A 90-minute Q&A coaching call with Joel AND fat loss expert Vince DelMonte. Vince just used Joel’s exact program to drop down to an all time low 5% body fat for his upcoming photo shoot in the Dominican (while eating WHATEVER he wanted every 5th day), and both he and Joel will be hosting a 90-minute Q&A call exclusive to those who order today.

2. A 20-page report of a recent interview that author Tom Venuto conducted with Joel, *grilling* him with his toughest questions, causing Joel to dig deeper into the science behind the Cheat Your Way Thin program than he ever has before, revealing a slew of new, powerful, never-before-seen information. It’s called “The Leptin Chronicles” and if you’re serious about dropping body fat FAST this holiday season, it can open your eyes to a whole new way of getting your body to shed fat fast.

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Now, in case you don’t know what CheatYourWayThin is, it’s based on 6 years of research and backed by scientific evidence (check the “research” tab on Joel Marion’s site), and shows you how to lose weight while “using” your favorite foods in the process.

Check it out here: Cheat Your Way Thin Holiday Edition at 50%

The great thing about this holiday edition is that you can make Thanksgiving a “cheating” day and eat your favorite foods.

This is a great program to use in order to lose weight. I believe it can help to make this holiday season a much better one in terms of your fitness and waistline.

If you want to read a more complete review of it, go here: Joel Marion Review

#1 Secret To Stop Emotional Eating

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:34:59 +0000

I have some exciting news: I just uploaded a short video in which I reveal the #1 secret to stop emotional eating, binge eating, or any other kind of overeating.

Watch the video here and see a cute cartoon of me (-:

As you may know, emotional eating is one of the main reasons why so many diets fail. You can’t change your body without changing your mind as well. If you can’t control your eating habits, you will never be able to lose weight and to keep if off for a long time.

This is why I think that you will find this new, short, video very good to watch.

Just go here and watch the #1 Secret

Let me know what you think.

Most Americans Don’t Eat Enough Fruit and Vegetables

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:49:56 +0000

It seems that despite continued effort to educate the American public as to the benefits of eating fruit and vegetables, most Americans still don’t eat enought fruit and veggies, as described in a new report by the name of State Indicator Report on Fruits and Vegetables, 2009 we are far from the healthy place we should be. No state meets the national goals for the consumption of fruit and vegetables. None.

The goal is that in 2010 75% of Americans will eat the recommended 2 servings of fruit each day and 50% will eat the recommended 3 servings of vegetables each day.

This is truly a worthy goal but it seems we’re far off the mark. Surveys show that only 33% of adults each enough fruit and only 27% eat enough vegetables. When you look at the stats for high school students, the data is even worse: 32% eat enough fruit and just 13% eat enough veggies.

This means that our children aren’t getting what they need to grow up in an optimal way and that we aren’t protecting ourselves as we should from chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. It has long been established that fruit and vegetables are natural risk reducers of all these diseases.

What needs to be done is simple: a complete reform in the food that school offers students and a change in education to place great emphasis on eating fruit and vegetables. This can help us not only protect our health better but save the American tax payer a lot of money in reduced health costs for many years to come.

It is also a good time to have a look at yourself and how you’re eating. Are you eating enough fruit and vegetables? Make sure to eat 2 fruits and 3 vegetables a day at the very least (I usually eat more).

In addition, now is a good time to look at what you have in your home and kitchen and see how you can go for healthier food choices. One great ebook which teaches all that is Fat Burning Kitchen. Check it out for better health and low body fat.

Tired of Being Told to Lose Weight

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:12:25 +0000

If you’re reading this blog, there’s a good chance that you’re not as satisfied with your weight as you can be. I’m not judging you of course. I was overweight once and it can happen to anyone.

The problem is that our modern society doesn’t let us be overweight and happy. It bombards us with infomarcials, other forms of advertisements, talk shows, and constant messaging which is all intended to make us envy someone who’s beautiful or to feel bad because we have a few extra pounds.

You can be tired of being fat but usually you’re more tired of being told that you are fat.

I don’t believe in making a personal change from a negative stand poing. I believe that you can’t be told to do anything. The will to change has to come from within. You alone can determine what your life will be like.

As you may already know, I advocate being as lean and as healthy as possible. That’s just my way of life and what makes me happy. However, I don’t think for a minute that overweight people can’t be happy, which is what some of the ads we see insinuate. Happiness is a mental state which isn’t dependant on your physical condition.

What I’m saying here that if you’re happy with the way you are, that’s great. I admire that and I envy that. You’re better off than a lot of thin people who can’t find their place in the world. You’re the lucky one.

You can try to lose weight but do it because you want to not because society expects it. What other people think is important, but it’s not as important as what you think and how you feel. This is the key.

The next time you see an annoying infomercial or another tiresome talk show with the latest fad diet, switch it off and go read a book or something. Don’t let other people tell you what to do with your life. It’s yours and that’s it.

Calorie Restriction For Life Extension: What They Didn’t Tell You On Oprah

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:13:43 +0000

Today I have a guest article but a trainer and nutrition expert I admire. His name is Tom Venuto and this article is about the connection between calorie restriction and life extension. I think it’s a topic which will get more attention in the future, so I believe this article is a must read…

By Tom Venuto
www.BurnTheFat.com

On a recent episode of the Oprah show, one of the guests was a 51 year old man with the heart of a 20 year old. He’s been following a calorie restriction plan and they said he might be one of the first people to reach 120 years old by following this plan. There have been stories both in the lay press and scientific press about calorie restriction for years and it has been a frequent talk show topic on other many other TV shows. However, before you cut your calories in half in hopes of adding another decade onto your life, you’d better get the other half of the story they didn’t talk about on Oprah.

I’ve seen a lot of strange things in the health field, and although calorie restriction (CR) is the subject of serious and legitimate scientific study, I consider CR to be one of those strange things. Of course, that’s because I choose a different lifestyle – the muscle-friendly Burn The fat, Feed The Muscle lifestyle – but there’s more than one reason why I’m not a CR advocate:

Hunger while dieting is almost always a challenge. There’s some hunger even with conservative calorie deficits of 15-20% under maintenance. Prolonged hunger is one of the biggest reasons people fall off the weight loss diet wagon because it’s unpleasant and difficult to resist. This is why pharmaceutical and supplement companies spend millions of dollars on researching, developing and marketing appetite suppressants. Yet CR advocates put themselves through 30-50% calorie restriction on a daily basis as a way of life in the hopes of extending life span or health.

Practitioners of CR follow a low-calorie lifestyle, but technically, they are not in a chronic 30% calorie deficit. That would be impossible. What happens is their metabolisms get very slow (that’s part of the idea behind CR; if you slow down your metabolism, you allegedly slow down aging). So a 6 foot tall man who would normally require nearly 3,000 calories to maintain his weight, might eventually reach an energy balance at only 1800 or 1900 calories. This is not just due to a ‘starvation mode’ phenomenon, that’s only part of it. It’s primarily because he loses weight until he is very thin and his smaller body doesn’t need many calories any more.

Does caloric restriction really extend lifespan?

The biological mechanisms of lifespan extension through calorie restriction are not fully understood, but researchers say it may involve alterations in energy metabolism (as mentioned above), reduced oxidative damage, improvements in insulin sensitivity, reduction of glycation, modulation of protein metabolism, downregulation of pro-inflammatory genes and functional changes in both neuroendocrine and autonomic nervous systems.

Mouse studies on CR go back as far as 1935 and monkey studies began in the late 1980’s. So far the results are clear on one thing: caloric restriction does increase lifespan in rodents and other lower species (yeast, worms and flies). Studies suggest the life of the laboratory rat is 25% longer with CR (even longer with aggressive CR). Primate studies are still underway and humans have been experimenting with CR for some time. In primates and humans, biomarkers of aging show signs of slower aging with CR. This makes many proponents talk about this CR as if it were a sure-thing, already proven through double-blind randomized clinical human trials.

The truth is, there is NO direct experimental evidence that you will live longer from practicing CR. Due to the length of human lifespans, we will not have the necessary data for at least another generation and perhaps multiple generations. Even then, it will still be highly speculative whether CR will extend human life at all and if so how much. We can only estimate. I’ve seen guesses in the scientific literature ranging from 3 to 13 years, if CR is practiced for an entire adult lifetime.

Jay Phelan, a biologist at UCLA is skeptical. He says the potential life extension is on the lower end of that range and the increase is so small that it’s not worth the semi-starvation:

“There is no current evidence that lifelong caloric restriction leads to increased lifespan in primates. It’s certainly tantalizing that things like blood pressure or heart rate look as though they are a lot healthier and I believe they are. Whether or not this translates to a significantly increased lifespan, I don’t know. I predict that it doesn’t.”

I don’t quibble qualitatively with their results. Yes, it will increase lifespan, but it will not increase it by 50% or 60%, it won’t increase it by 20% or 10%, it might increase it by 2%. So if you tell me that I have to do something horrible for every day of my life for a 2% benefit – for an extra year of life – I say no thanks.”

Is prolonged caloric restriction unhealthy?

When caloric restriction is practiced with optimal nutrition (CRON), it is not inherently unhealthy. Actually, it appears the reverse is true. First, the weight loss that comes with the low calories produces improvements in the health markers, as you would expect. Second, the meticulous choice of food from CRON practitioners, where they pick high nutrient foods and avoid empty calories means that they are making healthy food choices. Third, advocates say that the CR itself improves health. I wonder, however, how much does CR improve health independent of the weight loss and the optimal nutrition?

By losing fat and maintaining an ideal body composition (the fat to muscle ratio) and eating high nutrient density foods, I propose that even at a more normal caloric intake, you will get very significant health and longevity benefits. I also propose that gaining muscle in a natural way (no steroids) will increase your quality of life today and as you get older.

Aside from the fact that we are not lab rats, the truth is, none of us knows when our day will come. We could get plucked off this physical plane at any moment and have no control over how it happens. My belief is that we should make our lifestyle decisions based on quality of life, not just quantity of life. That includes our quality of life today as well as our anticipated quality of life when we are older. Maybe we ought to be focusing more on “health span” than life span.

Downsides of calorie restriction for life extension

One fact about calorie restriction that they often don’t mention on these talk shows is that the benefits of CR decline if you start CR at a later age. This was discussed in a research paper from the Journal of Nutrition called, “Starving for life: what animal studies can and cannot tell us about the use of caloric restriction to prolong human lifespan.” The author of the paper, John Speakman from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, said that the later in life you begin to practice CR, the less of an increase in lifespan you will achieve. Even if the CR proponents are right, if you started in your late 40’s or mid 50’s for example, the benefit would be minimal. If you started in your 60’s the effect would be almost nonexistent. Essentially, you have to “starve for life” to get the benefits.

While some CR proponents claim that they aren’t hungry and they cite studies suggesting that hunger decreases during starvation, Speakman and other researchers say that hunger remains a big problem during CR – especially in today’s modern society where we are surrounded with convenience food and numerous eating cues – and that alone makes CR impractical:

“Neuroendocrine profiles support the idea that animals under CR are continuously hungry. The feasibility of restricting intake in humans for many decades is questionable.”

Let’s suppose for a moment that CR is totally legit and the claims are true. Many of the proposed benefits of CR come at the expense of what many of us are trying to do here: gain and maintain lean body mass. One spokesman for CR is 6 feet tall and 130 pounds. Another poster boy for CR is 6 foot tall and 115 lbs. Measurements of rodents under CR not only show large reductions in skeletal muscle but also bone mass.

I am not suggesting that these CR practitioners are anorexic, a concern that has been raised about CR when practiced aggressively. However, they are losing large amounts of fat-free tissue and that is plainly obvious for all to see when you look at their bony physiques. I am not imposing my body standards on others, but 115 to 130 lbs at 6 foot tall is underweight for a man by any standard. Furthermore, researchers say that at the body mass indices sustained by most voluntary CR practitioners, we would expect females to become amenorrheic. “One thing that is completely incompatible with a CR lifestyle is reproduction” says Speakman.

With that kind of atrophy, I have to wonder what their quality of life will be like in old age. While many people struggle with body fat for most of their adult lives, I’m sure almost everyone knows an elderly person who wrestles with the opposite problem: they are seriously underweight and they struggle to eat enough and maintain lean body mass.

My grandmother, before she passed away, was under 80 lbs. We could not get her to eat. She was weak and very frail. I have reported many times about the research showing how most overweight people under estimate calorie intake and eat more than they think or admit. In elder care homes, the research has often showed the opposite – the patients over estimate how much they eat. They swear they are eating enough, but they arent and they keep losing dangerous amounts of weight. With underweight, atrophied seniors, weakness means less functionality and lower quality of life and a fall can mean more than broken bones, it can be life-threatening.

Life extension with more muscle

While there is a commonality between CRON and the way I recommend eating (high nutrient density, low calorie density foods), in most regards, CR is the opposite of my approach. In my Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle program, we go for a higher energy flux nutrition program, which means that because we are weight training and doing cardio and leading a very active lifestyle, we get to eat more. Because we are so active and well-trained, the eating more does not have a negative effect as it would on a sedentary person, who might get sick and fat from the additional calories. We active folks take those calories, burn them for energy, partition them into lean muscle tissue and we enjoy a faster metabolism and extremely high quality of life.

As a bodybuilder, CR is not compatible with my priorities, but hypothetically speaking, if I were to practice a lower calorie lifestyle, I wouldn’t follow an aggressive CR approach. I’d probably do as the Okinawans do. They have a very simple philosophy: hari hachi bu: eat until you are only 80% full. While this does not mean there is a carefully measured 20% calorie deficit, it’s consistent with what we practice in the Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle lifestyle for a fat loss phase, and avoiding overeating is certainly a smart way to avoid obesity and health problems. Incidentally, the Okinawans eat about 40% less than Americans, and 11% less than they should, according to standard caloric intake guidelines, and they live 4 years longer than Americans.

If someone is being “sold” on CR by an enthusiastic CR spokesperson, or simply curious after watching the latest TV talk show (where they are looking for controversial stories), it’s important to know that there is more than one side to the story. If you carefully read the entire body of research on CR, you will see that the experts are split right down the middle in their opinions about whether CR will really work. CR for humans remains highly controversial and there are no guarantees that this will extend your life.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health in Baltimore, MD put it this way:

“Because it is unlikely that an experimental study will ever be designed to address this question in humans, we respond that “we think we will never know for sure.” We suggest that debate of this question is clearly an academic exercise.”

In closing, let me go back to one of the original questions I was asked: “Can the BFFM food plan also be thought as a longevity lifestyle, but with more muscle mass?” Absolutely beautifully said! That’s precisely what Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle is.

I believe that by making healthy food choices but doing so at a higher level of calorie intake and expenditure, that we can fend off sarcopenia – the age related decline in muscle mass that debilitates many seniors – while enjoying a more muscular physique, greater strength, and a less restrictive lifestyle. Most gerontologists agree – by making simple lifestyle changes that include strength training and good nutrition, you can easily turn back the biological clock 10 years without going hungry.

For more information about Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle, the “longevity lifestyle with more muscle”, visit: www.BurnTheFat.com

Train hard and expect success,

Tom Venuto
Fat Loss Coach
www.BurnTheFat.com

About the Author:

Tom Venuto is a fat loss expert, lifetime natural (steroid-free) bodybuilder, independent nutrition researcher, freelance writer, and author of the #1 best selling diet e-book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle: Fat-Burning Secrets of The World’s Best Bodybuilders & Fitness Models (e-book) which teaches you how to get lean without drugs or supplements using secrets of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and increase your metabolism by visiting: www.burnthefat.com

Appesat Pill Review – First Glance

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:25:46 +0000

Hi, I just recently read this article on a new weight loss pill which has been approved for sale in Britain. It’s called Appesat and it’s an appetite suppressant (check out the article here: Appesat article)

As this is a new pill, I can’t give it a complete review but as I am sensing that this is going to be big on the news, I wanted to give a quick rundown of what I do know and get back to reviewing it in more detail later on.

Appesat is contains Bioginate Complex, a patented fiber complex extracted from the seaweed Laminaria digitata. Why is this supposed to help you?

This fiber is supposed to swell up inside your stomach so that after a while your stomach sends signals to your brain as if it’s full, reducing your appetite dramatically. This is reported to help in a number of ways:

1. As a way to overcome binge eating

2. Helping you eat smaller portions

3. Making you feel full for longer.

Obviously, all these things can help you to shed weight. However, as with all pills, it is best to wait a while before rushing out to spend your money on this.

What are the side effects?

Does it work for the long run?

Does it work for everyone?

How long do you need to take it?

Until all of these questions have been answered, it isn’t 100% safe to begin taking this pill, in my opinion. I may be biased as I dislike diet pills in general and prefer to work on lifestyle, nutrition, and fitness improvements as a way for a long term weight loss but I do think that before you put any pill into your body that you should wait to see how other people are doing with it.

I will keep you posted as more news come to light on this pill. But for now I stick to my usual recommendations. A proper eating plan with a good dose of exercise is still the best way to shed weight and get lean.

I recommend this plan: Fat Loss 4 Idiots as it’s an eating plan which is easy to stick to and produces excellent results.

Do You Believe You Can Lose Weight?

admin — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:12:49 +0000

Many people try to lose weight not just once or twice, but over and over again, year after year after year. After so many tries and disappointments, a lack of self-belief sets in and you begin to seriously doubt your ability to shed pounds at all.

The remarkable thing is that people who don’t believe they can lose weight still try the occasional weight loss plan. But they do it without a true conviction. They work from an assumption of ultimate failure. Is it any wonder that they continue to not lose weight regardless of the plan they choose?

If you don’t believe you can lose weight I advise you not to try any new plan. It’s just a waste of time and may deepend your self-doubt. However, you should also know that I believe that everyone can lose weight. It is simply finding the right plan for you. That and nothing else.

One more thing that you should realize is that you don’t fail to lose weight, the diet you tried failed you. As long as you follow a weight loss plan to the letter (and as long as this plan is reasonable), you have done what’s required of you. If you didn’t lose weight, that’s not your fault. It’s the diet plan that didn’t work.

Because of that you need to continue searching for another method, a better one. A plan that works for you.

No diet works for everyone. We are all built differently from one another and so we need different solutions. Without a firm belief in yourself, you will never succeed because you will lack the motivation to stick to any plan for enough time. For that reason I urge you to believe in yourself and not lose heart. It is in your power to lose weight, even if the road is a bit longer than what you would’ve hoped it would be.

Is the 500 Calories a Day Diet Good For Your Health?

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:21:46 +0000

There are many diets out there which people try out. Some seem logical but aren’t. Some sound crazy, but may work. In this post I want to talk about the 500 calories diet, which isn’t really a weight loss plan, but just a way that people try to lose weight.

So, what is the 500 calories a day diet? This is a low-calorie diet and the concept is very simple: you eat very little and you lose weight. Great, right?

Wrong!

This may sound like a great and indeed a highly logical way to melt away the fat but this is far from the case. In fact, a 500 calories per day eating plan has a lot of cons which you should know about before you try this method out. The main con is that this diet can actually make you gain weight! I know it sounds strange but it’s true. Read on and see why…

Can you lose pounds when eating just 500 calories each day?

The answer is yes but only if you do it for a short while. And you will not find this an easy eating plan to stick to as it’s extremely low on calories. You will feel almost constant hunger. You may see some weight loss during the first week or so, but that would mostly be water weight. Any longer than that and you may encounter one of the following symptoms:

1. Tiredness – Eating too little can deplete you energy and make you feel exhausted all the time. Expect some heavy yawning.

2. Lack of concentration and memory lapses. You brain won’t function as it should with so few calories in it. Don’t try this plan before tests.

3. You may feel irritable because you will constantly be hungry. This isn’t the time to hang out with your friends.

4. If you try to stick to this plan for a long time you may even begin to experience hair loss and other nasty starvation related symptoms.

5. You will lose muscle mass which isn’t what you’re trying to do. You want to lose weight but look toned, and you can’t do that when you eat so little.

But the main thing is that eating 500 calories a day is bad for your long term weight loss because eating so little causes metabolic slowdown. When you eat so little your body slows down the rate in which it burns calories so that your fat stores will last longer. This is a survival mechanism which our body developed over the ages and cannot be turned off.

As you will not continue to eat 500 calories per day for the rest of your life, when you begin eating normally again, your metabolism will remain at the 500 calories level so that you will see your weight shoot up even though you’re eating normally.

500 calories is too low and a very bad idea. You can lose weight fast without going to such extremes. Try a normal eating plan which lets you have a sensible amount of food each day.

5 Tips for a Fast Weight Loss

admin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:39:15 +0000

Losing weight is often made a lot more complicated than it really is. This is a shame because there’s a lot you can do in order to help you shed a few pounds quickly. This isn’t to say that I think it’s easy to lose weight or that you shouldn’t consider following an expert program, but there are still changes you can make in your day to day routine which will make losing weight a lot easier.

1. Eat without distractions – One the easiest ways to overeat is to do it in front of the TV or while there are other distractions. You need to be aware of what you eat. Not only will this help you to avoid overeating but will also help you enjoy your food more which is a crucial part of long term weight loss.

2. Always eat at the table. People who eat on their coach, in bed, in front of the TV, or anywhere else besides their dinner table create a mental connection between these places and food. This makes it harder to avoid a feeling of hunger when you sit or lie in these places. You need to create craving free havens in your home and not make them all eating spots.

3. Don’t skip meals – Skipping meals to eat less may seem logical but it can backfire. If you skip one meal it is more likely that you will overeat on the next. It is better to spread out your calorie consumption throughout the day and not eat big meals all at once.

4. Be active – Any activity that you do, even if it’s climbing a flight of stairs instead of taking the lifts is burning more calories for you and helping you to create a calorie deficit. This may seem like small gains but they add up big time to help you lose weight in the long run.

5. Drink water – It is established that dehydration can lead to overeating, cravings, stress, and is generally unhealthy. Make sure to drink at least 8 glasses of water each day to help you lose weight.

Follow these 5 tips and you will achieve a much faster weight loss.